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the flip, by running through the girths. But a 

 light carcafed horfe, deep in the girth, and 

 well filletted, may be among the mod excellent, 

 both for fpeed and duration. Such are often 

 found to be good and fufficient feeders, and of 

 rare temperament. 



The goose-rump is, as well as the ragged 

 hip, another angular infringement of Hogarth's 

 curve of beauty. If the rump be too high, the 

 hinder will prefs, too much, upon the fore- 

 quarters in action. When the quarters droop, 

 they are, in courfe, too fhort, and the tail is fet 

 on too low. Round, full buttocks, (hew the 

 common, or cart-breed. 



To be hipped, or hipshot, is to have one 

 hip lower than the other, and the flefh wafted 

 on that fide. It may arife from a blow or 

 {train. 



A horfe lame in the whirl- bone, or hip- 

 joint, drags his hind-leg after him, and drops 

 backward when he trots. This lamenefs, and 

 that of the ftifle, if taken in time, and the fub- 

 ject. be young, are always curable. 



The bay gelding, which I fold to the late 

 Mr. Beaufoy, member for Yarmouth, and 

 which he rode, I believe, near feven years, 

 I purchafed lame in the whirl-bone, at five 

 years old. 



Stifled, or lame in the stifle. The 

 ftifle is tne knee-pan of the thigh ; the liga- 

 ments, 



